Happy Geeky Saturday, Space Crew!

Today is Tabletop Day and Independent Bookstore Day! I don’t know about where you all live, but the sun is shining here. It’s a good day to go hang out with some fellow nerds. 

Those of you sitting at home like me (for now), get the pleasure of reading some book spam. 

So here’s the deal. I want to make sure I have a solid contribution to give to BuildOn, the charity I’ve partnered with. In order to pledge them anything significant, the pre-order train cannot stop here. 

I have some things in the works that I hope will help, but if that doesn’t work out we’ve got 5 days remaining to fund this project as much as we can. Help me help others by picking up extra copies as gifts, or if you’re a fellow author, your shout-outs are much appreciated!

Next Saturday is a geeky Saturday too. Free Comic Book Day is back, and that means I’ll be releasing a digital 5-page spread sharing a scene from our beloved story. Here’s a sneak peek of the line-art, and you can expect more this week.

I also want to shout-out some authors who are funding right now that I’d like to see doing better. 

George Pitre’s The Girl Who Blinked seems to have gotten buried among so many space operas. I’d like to see this guy funded, and he’s running out of time. So check out some of his work and see if it resonates with you. 

RF Martin’s Pixelated Obsidian Roses is described as "an experimental dark fantasy, in the vein of Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror". If that doesn’t make you pick it up, maybe the blurb will. 

Patrick who needs no last name isn’t yet funding, but has pitched the idea of Brobots. I’m so excited I can’t stop thinking about this pitch. Check it out, and follow and support him, because this story is going places. 

Now Your Noodle of the Day

Your Loyal and Indebted Space Noodle,
-AC

PS: READERS. Did I tell you that I had already written about 60% of the sequel to Lucky? Indeed, this is true! My ideal plan would be to have Lucky fully funded and published before November 1 so I can write the first draft of Allegra for National Novel Writing Month and then spend December 2016 and January 2017 editing my sequel, a novel currently known as Fortune and Glory. However, none of this will happen without your support and pre-orders! If you’ve got any questions, feel free to tweet them to me @RH_Webster on Twitter, or message me on my author Facebook page: www.facebook.com/RHWebster.ScienceFiction.

NOW enjoy your weekend!

- Webster

Hello, Readers!

Happily Whatever After has gained such an enthusiastic following. I want to thank each and every one of you for believing in this project and being willing to support it. More details are in discussion, but we will be starting to look for submissions and short works of fiction in the near future.

In other news (and to occupy your eyes in the meantime), my first Required Viewing blog post is live and covers not only two of my favorite movies, but also briefly discusses the difference between science fiction and science fantasy. Check it out now at: https://rhwebster.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/required-viewing-1-star-wars-and-the-martian/

Hello, Readers!

Once upon a time I held a raffle every ten orders. Do you remember those days? They seem so long ago, when we were all young, and the book hadn’t even really started being a draft. Fun times.

Yessiree, I’m shipping out the raffle prizes!

This week’s issue of the "Avalon Chronicler" is now available! Another slice of Avalon news, another hidden piece of microfiction that fleshes out the world and backstories of the characters. Check it out. 

Also, I want to take this opportunity to again thank everyone who has taken the time (and money) to support my book. Crowdfunding a novel is hard, probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I have not forgotten those who chose to support me. Not always with just a pre-order, but with some great words of encouragement. Michael Haase, Billy O’Keefe, RH Webster, John Robin...just to name a few. Thank you, thank you. 

I also want to take the chance now to shine the spotlight on just a few great books you should consider supporting:

Deus Hex Machina by Amanda Orneck

https://www.inkshares.com/books/deus-hex-machina

Scribbles by Tabi Card

https://www.inkshares.com/books/scribbles-a-collection-of-words

Pixelated Obsidian Roses by RF Martin

https://www.inkshares.com/books/pixilated-obsidian-roses

Cape’s Side Bay by James Rasile

https://www.inkshares.com/books/cape-s-side-bay

The Traveller’s Cup by AC Baldwin

https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-traveller-s-cup

Also, a special congratulations to JF Dubeau for getting his book A God in the Shed fully funded! Pre-order this book NOW if you haven’t already!

https://www.inkshares.com/books/a-god-in-the-shed

That’s all for this update, superspies, thanks again for your support and if you haven’t already, please consider getting yourself a copy of my book and help me make it a reality!

Have a great weekend!

Jason

Good day sentients!

I’ll get to the news in a moment, but first I want to do a little push. Again. Don’t worry, this one won’t cost you a penny, just a few moments of your time.

You know what’s awesome about books? The best part some would say? Being able to chat about the book with your friends. A lot of you enjoyed The Life Engineered and that fact brings me immeasurable joy. But what if we could get more people? I’m not going to ask you to promote The Life Engineered. I mean, talk about it, by all means, but what I want from you is help getting my book nominated for the Dragon Awards.

DragonCon is huge and these awards are going to be huge. Just getting a nomination would be a tremendous honour, and since these are submitted by readers like you, why not give it a shot?

Just check out the nomination page and enter The Life Engineered in the Science Fiction Novel field, fill in the rest with whatever you feel is deserving and voila! You’re done. You’ve helped me. And think of it this way; if I get nominated, I kind of have to go to DragonCon. So this is a way you can force me to spend money.

The News:

As you probably know by now, my second book A God in the Shed has reached its funding goal and will be published on Inkshares. Over the coming weekend I’ll be hard at work filling out the paperwork and doing a final polish to the manuscript before sending everything out to Inkshares for editing.

While Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions are working on all this, I’ll be finishing the first draft for ArchAndroid. This means that we are rapidly approaching the day when I call out for beta readers. Parallel to that, I’m preparing the funding campaign for ArchAndroid which is both a terrifying and exciting endeavour. I’m eager to get this book out there but terrified at doing another funding campaign.

Thanks again for your support my friends. I’m working on a little promotional thing with Inkshares to distribute some more signed prints to readers.

Cheers,

JF